Sitting next to the fire and looking at the woman directly opposite, Rhodes seemed to have discovered something.
In Rhode's memory, he seemed to have seen that woman before, but he couldn't remember where he had seen her, but he only had some impressions in his mind.
After waiting for a moment and seeing no reaction from the woman, Rhodes asked proactively: "Who are you?"
The woman did not answer Rhodes' words, but just glanced at Rhodes lightly.
She picked up a handful of dry branches from the darkness behind her and put them into the fire in front of her. For a moment, the flames in the fire burned even brighter.
After completing all this, she smiled with satisfaction, then looked at Rhodes and said, "Tell me what you think about suffering."
Her voice is deep. It's not like she's deliberately lowering her voice, but it's just the way her voice is.
"Suffering? What do you mean?" Rhodes glanced at her with some confusion, not understanding the meaning of her question.
In this unfamiliar environment, Rhodes didn't know what impact his answer would have on the follow-up. The best choice was to ask the woman in front of him first, and then make his own answer based on her answer.<
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"People suffer from situations that make them feel painful." She slowly explained, "It may be physical suffering, death, disease, disability, or it may be mental, madness, pain, and love."
"Love?" Rhodes seemed to have discovered something, frowned slightly, looked at her and asked, "Is love also a kind of suffering?"
"Of course." She nodded, "When all creatures are just born, their hearts are peaceful and happy, with no fear, no desire, and extremely pure. Have you ever observed the eyes of any newborn creature? There is nothing in them.
Impurities."
Rhodes was silent and listened to the woman's story with a calm expression.
"However, with contact with the outside world, the original happiness and peace of newborns are destroyed, fear and desire arise, and distracting thoughts appear in the innocent heart, causing people to lose eternal happiness. This is the existence of suffering. Since then,
After we are born, everything we experience, even the love that can bring people temporary happiness, is suffering."
As she said that, she paused and stared at Rhodes carefully: "This is my understanding of suffering. I want to hear yours."
Rhodes thought for a moment and replied: "I think suffering can make people gain strength and make them heroes."
"Hero? Is this your understanding of suffering?" She seemed a little disappointed and glanced at Rhodes dissatisfied.
Rhodes nodded: "If suffering has any meaning, it is to make people transcend suffering. People cannot do this with their own strength. They can only achieve it by becoming heroes."
She smiled slightly: "Although I don't agree with what you said, I agree with one of your sentences. The meaning of suffering is that people can transcend suffering and obtain eternal happiness."
Rhodes seemed to realize something: "Eternal happiness... that is not something that can be achieved simply. Even the lich who seems to have achieved eternity will die when he meets a stronger enemy. What kind of happiness,
Can it last forever?"
"There is only one kind of existence that has such happiness. In the ancient legends of Erathia, that kind of existence is called 'God'." She said loudly, stood up from the fire, and her large robe suddenly covered
Her body enveloped her, "We meet again, Rod."
Hearing what she said, Rhodes' expression suddenly changed, and he subconsciously entered a state of vigilance.
In Rhode's impression, after he came to Hell, he never revealed his real name and always called himself Ellot. However, the woman in front of him called out his real name. Listening to her words,
It seems that this is not the first time she sees herself.
After thinking of this, Rhodes seemed to realize something, and glanced at the woman with some surprise. It seemed that there was only one person who knew that his soul would go to hell.
"Mexijia, is that you?" Rhodes asked with some confusion. Apart from Mexijia, he couldn't think of anyone else in front of him.
Facing Rhodes' question, she did not answer directly, but a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, which was regarded as acquiescing to Rhodes' words.
At this time, Rhodes also recalled where he had seen the face of this woman. The statue belonging to the Greedy King in the Temple of Revelation not long ago was clearly made in the look of the woman in front of him. p>
Once, under the influence of the Realm of the Dead, Messika took on the form of an old woman, but during the trial in the depths of hell, Rhodes saw her true form, or what she once looked like.
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The difference between these two looks was huge, and Rhodes was really not used to it for a while.
"I found the guidance you left." After pondering for a moment, Rhodes said slowly, "When you just disappeared, I used treasures to explore your situation and found you hanging on a lava lake. Now it seems,
Your condition should be better than I thought. You were able to find me during the trial, so it seems that you are safe and sound."
However, Messika shook his head: "What you see now is just a small trick. My body is still on that lava lake, suffering punishment... The lava lake you see is the one in the trial.
The Lake of Fire, and where I am, should be a place called the Gate of Disloyalty."
Hearing Messika's words, Rhodes' complexion changed. Before that, from Hela's story, Rhodes already knew that among the ten gates leading to Fire Seal City, the first one was the one who broke the promise.
Door, I didn’t expect that Messiga would be locked up there.
"Why were you imprisoned there? What on earth did you do?" Rhodes asked with some confusion. He didn't understand what Maxika had done. As one of the kings, she should be punished like this.
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"That was a long time ago." Messiga did not answer Rhodes' question directly, but just shook his head, "The Arrogant King imprisoned me in the Gate of Disloyalty as one of the sacrifices for the birth of the 'Beast'.
If you can rescue me, I may be able to give you a lot of help."
"Beast? What is that?" Rhodes seemed to have discovered something and asked.
"The ultimate creature." Messiga said slowly, "All creatures that fail the trial will become part of the beast."
Rhodes frowned. In his memory, there was no such ultimate creature in the previous game. Perhaps it was because the players at that time disrupted the progress of the game, or for some other reason.
For everything in hell, Rhodes can't get any help from memory.